A few updates about the New Mexico HIV Community Planning and Action Group (CPAG) for 2019! Our first statewide meeting on Friday, January 11th is less than a month away!
CPAG will continue to have monthly meetings on the 2nd Friday of the month starting at 9:30 am at Alamosa Community Center in Albuquerque. The attached calendar lists the annual schedule. We will be meeting in: January, February, March, August, September, October and November. (We will not meet in April, June, July or December!)
We will tentatively be having the Annual Planning Summit on May 14 – 16 in Las Cruces.
Your new statewide co-chairs are:
Community Co-Chair: Miss Mattee Jim
Persons Living with HIV (PLWH) Co-Chair: Jeffrey Hurley (newly elected to 2-year term)
NMDOH Co-Chair: Andrew Gans
CPAG will strive to be a venue for training and cross-training of individuals working in and advocating for the fields of HIV testing/prevention and HIV care/support services. Rather than a focus solely on monitoring and evaluating progress on our 2016 Integrated Plan for HIV Prevention and Care, we have 3 new goals for CPAG during 2019.
Improve services and outcomes across the HIV care continuum by ensuring that staff are cross-trained on HIV prevention and HIV care/support services.
Reduce health disparities related to HIV by improving staff training and access to diverse resources across a variety of social indicators including immigration status, behavioral health, and criminalization of infectious disease.
Inform stakeholders of program activities and data to assess progress with and barriers to implementation of objectives in the Integrated Plan.
Keynote presentation in the morning, up to 90 minutes, on one of the topics identified in September 2018.
Agency presentation in the afternoon on their array of HIV prevention and care services. Presentation may be a PowerPoint, informal talk, staff panel, or any other format. Will include answers to key questions.
- How do you promote the Undetectable = Untransmittable campaign and information?
- How do you recruit clients and promote utilization of PrEP by those at greatest risk?
- What is the continuing impact of stigma on your activities and/or your clients in HIV prevention and care?
- What work are you doing to continue to share information and reduce stigma in the communities you serve?
One interactive or team-building activity. Can be led by the agency that is featured as the presenter for the month.
Standing topics, including PIR/Membership, reports from Regional Advisory Groups (RAG), etc.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
